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Fundamentals of Numerical Computation

  • Home
  • Introduction
  • Square linear systems
  • Overdetermined linear systems
  • Roots of nonlinear equations
  • Piecewise interpolation
  • Initial-value problems for ODEs
  • Review: Linear algebra
  • All demo notebooks
    • Chapter 1 (Introduction)
      • Floating point in Julia
      • Absolute and relative accuracy
      • Surprising arithmetic
      • Horner’s rule
      • Instability of the quadratic formula
      • Stable alternative to the quadratic formula
      • Polynomial roots
    • Chapter 2 (Linear systems)
    • Chapter 3 (Least squares)
    • Chapter 4 (Rootfinding)
    • Chapter 5 (Piecewise)
    • Chapter 6 (IVPs)
  • References
  • Index
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Chapter 1 (Introduction)¶

  • Floating point in Julia

  • Absolute and relative accuracy

  • Surprising arithmetic

  • Horner’s rule

  • Instability of the quadratic formula

  • Stable alternative to the quadratic formula

  • Polynomial roots

All demo notebooks Floating point in Julia

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